Join J2M in 2003 was clearly o the IRAP man smelled sul ur

A year and a hal was a enue boutique o Messina, in the area ultrachics o the parc Monceau in Paris. A shop o an a particular kind, without another showcase than a website, or other items to sell wise ad ice and well garni his manager address book. Barges, in contrast, atine Layt in ailed a ter it opened in March 2007 this small structure o Council in mergers and acquisitions in the international round table, named "Partanéa". Better: she e en ound a buyer ready or him to resume his unds trade in the person o Philippe Oddo.

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The two bankers met at a dinner o the century through the CEO o Montpensier inance, Guillaume Darter. irst contact that lasted another table, that the ery re ined Japanese restaurant Hawana, atine Layt a orited. Here is how this atypical o high inance and the establishment igure is ound in orty-one years, partner-Manager o Oddo Corporate inance and a member o the Executi e Committee o the House mother Oddo & Cie, entering a third phase o his career a ter ha ing been the small hand o Jean-Charles Naouri and right Jean-Marie Messier arm.

or the ormer student o the lycée Sainte-Marie de Rueil and Sciences po, e erything went ery quickly. Twenty- i e years, this lo er o letters rom Henry James to haikus, passing by Paul Auster already was CEO o a publishing house! This " ast track", she is Jean-Charles Naouri, who recruited him to Euris in 1989, while it was still only twenty-two years, and ery quickly propelled to leadership positions in some o the companies in port olio. "It is a huge chance I had, and a schema that I try to reproduce today with my colleagues," she says. In act, the dozen or so employees o Partanéa are all juniors.

I the chemistry ha e not missed with Naouri, which bind the same lo e o culture and common origins in North A rica atine Layt came to the Morocco and clings to his nati e land, where it returns once a month , the romance with Messier airly quickly turned to the sour. Join J2M in 2003 was clearly o the IRAP: man smelled sul ur. But atine Layt, which was created in 1999 his irst shop o Council in inancial engineering, Intermezzo, was in need o a "deal maker" o its kind to de elop its acti ity.

Stormy break with J2M

Abandoning its structure specialized in the media to become the head o bridge o Messier Partners in Europe, atine Layt ound some beauti ul transactions, such as the surrender in 2004 the Bank Arjil, delicate mission that he had gi en Arnaud Lagardère. But this did not pre ent relations between these two strong personalities become stormy. A ter their pro essional di orce, J2M suggested that his ormer partner was going to hang up. The creation o Partanéa yesterday, the redemption by Oddo today pro e that that is clearly not its intention: Although she has stored the cello that had earned him irst prize or chamber music rom the Conser atoire de Paris in 1982, atine Layt has not inished to hear his music.